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Nordkapp -- North Cape -- NorwayПросмотров: 211The monument at Nordkapp, the most northerly part of Europe. Photographed at midnight.
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Ho Chi Minh City "Museum of War Remnants" with a HelicopterПросмотров: 244From the New York Times of July 1999: "The city's Museum of War Remnants, with its displays of captured weapons and its catalog of horrors, only recently amended its name, with changing times, from the Museum of American War Crimes." We were there before it changed its name. Our guide didn't want to take us, and felt very awkward about it all.
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Marjorie With a Tank at the Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet NamПросмотров: 213We read about this museum and were curious. We had to specifically ask our guide to take us. There was nobody else there. The whole museum was dusty and forgotten, something left over (barely) from another time, another place. I'd be surprised if it's still there.
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The View From Our Hotel in Northern NorwayПросмотров: 287The brown industrial building is the rest of our hotel. We were in the "annex" on the top of the hill. Can you imagine four (or so) months of cold darkness here?
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Cao Dai Temple Eye - Tay Ninh, Viet NamПросмотров: 5116"There are eyes throughout the massive temple that stare down, unblinkingly. The eye symbolizes God as He appeared in the first vision establishing the Cao Dai faith in 1926."
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Cao Dai Temple -- Tay Ninh, Viet NamПросмотров: 5612Showing the altar and the unblinking eye, which "symbolises the divine presence of God."
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Unblinking Eye -- Cao Dai Temple, Viet NamПросмотров: 6237The unblinking eye is the symbol of the Cao Dai faith, founded in 1926 in Viet Nam. "Cao Dai venerates a host of different figures including Victor Hugo, Sun Yat Sen, and Trangh Trinh, a 16th century Vietnamese poet and philosopher. Its ethics are based in the belief in the reincarnation of the soul." There are 7 to 8 million adherents, mostly in Viet Nam.
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Cao Dai Temple -- Tay Ninh, Viet NamПросмотров: 847For more information click here. The official website, as best I can tell, is here. Marjorie and I visited the temple, which is near Ho Chi Minh City, on our visit to Viet Nam.
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Marjorie Enjoying a "Sundowner" on the Mekong RiverПросмотров: 262Taking a sunset boat ride on the Mekong, near Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
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Marjorie Waiting For Our Car in Las VegasПросмотров: 250At the MGM Grand Hotel. Note that Marjorie is holding some dollar bills in her right hand -- you need to be ready with the tips in Las Vegas.
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Marjorie and Chase on the DockПросмотров: 291Somewhere in the Caribbean, one of the stops on our Windstar cruise. Summer 1992
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Norweigan FijordПросмотров: 588Photographed on our vacation in Norway. One of the things that surprised us was that the place was deserted --- even though it was summer. Where was everyone? There's a glacier in the "V" in the background.
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